| 2003.02.03 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre2 "bugs in my pockets, bugs in my |
| shoes" is released. There are, not suprisingly, |
| only bugfixes in this release as we move toward the |
| stable 1.2.0 release. Fixes are included for |
| translable string format, subexpression replacement, |
| constant cursor position, invalid search regexes, |
| justify, screen state on SIGHUP and SIGTERM, cutting |
| to end cuts with long lines, many file browser and |
| operating directory bugs, memory and file descriptor |
| leaks, marker code, spell checker, the mouse code |
| with long lines, multiple buffers and non-file |
| open errors, replacement string length, and a |
| silly but serious history message crash. There is |
| also a drastic improvement in CPU utliization for |
| the color regex code. |
| Depending on the number of bugs found in this |
| release, there may be a 1.1.99pre3 or RC1, or just |
| a 1.2.0 release. Most of the major bugs seem to have |
| been worked out, so if you are waiting for a good time |
| to test nano before the official 1.2.0 release, this |
| would be the one to use. Happy bug hunting! |
| |
| 2003.01.17 - GNU nano 1.1.99pre1 "enough already" has been released. |
| This release is, barring bug fixes and documentation |
| updates, what version 1.2.0 has looked like, feature |
| wise. There will very likely be bugs, just due the |
| volume of changes made in this release. Search |
| and replace string history has been added, including an |
| option to log history to ~/.nano_history (-H, |
| --historylog). Because of this, the pico incompatible |
| search/replace string behavior that used to be the |
| default has been deleted. The old "pico" flag (-p) |
| is now compatible with Pico's "preserve" mode for |
| allowing flow control characters; by default this |
| version ignores both ^Q and ^S. The |
| --disable-wrapping-as-root configure option has been |
| forward ported from version 1.0.x, and a new flag to |
| enable all extra options (--enable-all) has been added. |
| The internal spell checker has been improved, meaning |
| you will now be prompted only once for each unique |
| capitalization of a given word. |
| There have also been lots of bug fixes, |
| including the "trying to insert a directory name in |
| multibuffer mode bug", the ugly spell checker scrolling, |
| the color code, cutting text crashes, justification, |
| deleting the "magic line" via replace, and cursor |
| positioning on the statusbar. There have also been |
| the usual helping of translation and documentation |
| updates. |
| Please send all new feedback on this release |
| direct to the development list (nano-devel@gnu.org). |
| |
| 10/24/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.12 "Make Jordi happy" is released. This |
| release demonstrated that nano is starting to freeze for |
| version 1.2. New features include a Meta-Y toggle |
| for syntax highlighting, pluralized i18n, and a handler |
| for SIGTERM. Nano now ignores XOFF (^S) to stop |
| accidental lock-ups, and no longer references malloc.h. |
| Also included are fixes for zero-length regex |
| matches, segfaults with --disable-mouse, justification, |
| memory corruption with the browser, version and help |
| cmdline output, and translation updates. Aside from |
| the (currently up in the air) search history behavior, |
| the next version of nano should be 1.1.99pre1. Have |
| fun! |
| |
| 10/01/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.11 "Oddball" is released. This release |
| features a new version of gettext, a new and improved syntax |
| highlighting engine, and some updates for the nanorc.sample |
| file. The toggles for case sensitivity (Meta-C) and regular |
| expressions (Meta-R) have changed in the search and replace |
| prompts, multibuffer status is now displayed and can be |
| toggled from the insert file menu, and some wrapping behavior |
| that changed in 1.1.10 has reverted. The --enable-color |
| warning was also made less severe, as the color syntax code |
| has improved, and nano now uses extended regexes in the |
| .nanorc file. |
| Also included are fixes for various memory leaks, |
| the operating directory option, username tab completion, |
| the page_up and down arrow, go to previous word and next |
| word, nanorc parser and line wrapping code. Have fun! |
| |
| |
| 07/25/2002 - At long last! GNU nano 1.1.10 "What didn't we break?" is |
| released. This version of GNU nano features version |
| 0.11.2 of gettext, building with automake 1.6, some new |
| code for displaying control characters, browser |
| improvements, a new backup file option (-B, --backup), |
| a new option to ignore rc files (-I,--ignorercfiles), |
| compatibility with -pedantic, handling null characters |
| before EOF, a slightly sportier nanorc.sample and more. |
| Fixes are included included for justification, the |
| reading and writing file routines, resizing and fill |
| length, millions of memory leaks, the usage screen was |
| updated, and the the --quotestr and --regexp really work |
| now ;-) Enjoy :) |
| |
| 05/12/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.9 is released, happy Mother's Day! This release |
| includes many new features, including a prepend mode |
| (^O,M-P), a new "syntax" command in the .nanorc to allow |
| multiple syntax highlighting types, and a new -Y, --syntax |
| flag to set a specific one if there's no filename regex to |
| match it against (i.e. w/mutt). The ^space and M-space keys |
| will now show up in the help menu, which itself has been |
| tweaked a bit, and many more configure options should now |
| cooperate (like the odd pairing of --enable-tiny and |
| --enable-multibuffer). The marker should now work |
| when using multiple buffers, and the huge memory leak in |
| color syntax highlighting has been fixed. A lot of |
| new stuff for everyone's favorite text editor ;) Have fun! |
| |
| 03/30/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.8 is released. New features include an |
| "Insert Output of External Command", ^R^X, and a .spec |
| file is now included in the distribution. There are |
| cleanups in the usage code, fixes for regex parsing, |
| the file browser, the NO_CONVERT auto-detect, indented |
| justification, the internal spell checker, and a serious |
| bug where reading a file of 0 lines would hang nano. |
| Also, the "show position" code now shows the starting |
| column as 1 instead of 0. Have fun! |
| |
| 03/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.7 "lets change everything and see what breaks" |
| is released. New features include new flags |
| -N,--noconvert to stop any file format conversion and |
| -Q, --quotestr for the new quoted text justification, |
| a new tempnam() implementation to avoid silly warnings, |
| DOS and Mac file options in the Write File dialog, |
| multiple save files (file.1) for abnormal exits, ^C |
| now shows column as well as character position, and |
| multibuffer allows duplicate files, even unnamed ones. |
| Also, the static shortcut and toggle lengths are |
| history, nano now reads $SYSCONFDIR/nanorc if rc file |
| support is enabled, and nano is now built with (and |
| requires for rebuilding) autoconf 2.5. |
| This release also includes fixes for some memory |
| leaks, detecting DOS and mac file format, justification, |
| suspending keys, search & replace under various |
| conditions, variable width for shortcuts, and the usual |
| ton of translation updates. |
| |
| 01/25/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.6 is released. Lots of new features in this |
| release. New Meta-keys were added as alternates for |
| control sequences: Meta-A for the marker key (^^), and |
| Meta-G for the 'goto dir' key in the file browser (^_). |
| The color syntax highlighting now supports multiple |
| lines via start="regex" end="regex" syntax, and the |
| .nanorc regex format itself has changed. Also, the |
| gettext code was upgraded to version 0.10.40, and nano |
| will now display a message if only occurrence of a |
| given search exists. |
| For bugfixes, there are fixes for spelling, |
| stray newlines in the usage() function, suspend issues |
| with tcsh, auto-indent and wrapping clashes, ugly code |
| in rcfile.c, global variable compatibility with AIX. |
| There are also oodles of translation updates. |
| Have fun with it. |
| |
| 01/05/2002 - GNU nano 1.1.5 is out. The main new feature in this |
| release is the changed behavior of the keypad. Nano now |
| does the Right Thing and used keypad() by default. If |
| you wish to use the keypad arrow keys in certain |
| terminals, you may use the -K or --keypad flag to |
| use the old behavior. Users of other OSes should see |
| better handling of their non-keypad keys in this |
| release. Other changes include more Hurd fixes, fixes |
| parsing the .nanorc, display fixes for the color syntax |
| highlighting, gettext stabilization and many translation |
| updates. This is almost like a stable release, much like |
| in the 0.9.x series when every other release was the |
| most stable one :) Have fun! |
| |
| 12/11/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.4 is released. This release contains |
| rudimentary color syntax support (but it's still |
| broken), compatibility fixes for the Hurd and FreeBSD, |
| spell checker and wrapping fixes, and more. It seems |
| that the amount of interest in the code is inversely |
| proportional to the amount of time since last release, |
| so it's time to show the world all the changes since |
| 1.1.3 ;) Have fun with it! |
| |
| 10/26/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.3 is released. As far as new features go, |
| the help system is now available for all functions in the |
| editor. Also, nano will also now print a message on |
| the status bar when it automatically converts a file from |
| Mac or DOS format, and trying to load a file that |
| has already been loaded in multibuffer mode will now also |
| cause an error message. There is now a "goto previous |
| word" which you can use by hitting Meta-Space Bar. |
| As for fixes, a SEVERE bug in the |
| null_at code which discarded the memory address of |
| reallocated memory has been fixed. This is probably |
| the biggest bug fix in well over the last year of |
| development. There are also some display fixes for when |
| the screen shouldn't center itself on cut or uncut text. |
| Also, the comments in the header files incorectly said |
| that nano was distributed under version 1 of the GPL when |
| the accompanying license was the GPLv2. |
| If you're using nano-1.1, it is highly |
| recommended you upgrade to this release. If using 1.0, |
| wait for version 1.0.6 which should be available early |
| next week. Enjoy! |
| |
| 10/03/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.2 is out there. Many new features in this |
| release, including support for auto-converting from |
| DOS and Mac formatted files, as well as toggles for |
| writing out files in these formats. Pico's -o flag has |
| been implemented, as has some new smooth scrolling code |
| (which can be used in place of the default jerky scrolling |
| behavior). Also, there is now a "find matching |
| bracket/brace/etc" feature (Meta-]). The .nanorc file |
| now accepts setting the tabsize, and the help text at the |
| bottom of the editor is now better spaced out in the |
| search/replace prompts. There are also the usual helping |
| of bugfixes, translation updates and, surely a bug or two. |
| You better get ready! |
| |
| 07/28/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.1 is released. Our second 1.1 unstable release |
| features many bugfixes from the initial release, in |
| particular fixes for the multibuffer code, and various |
| compiler macro fixes. The shortcut lists for |
| the search and replace prompts are a little more logical |
| (with cancel the last option again), and the included |
| gettext was re-downgraded to 0.10.35 due to problems |
| on the PPC platform. GNU nano now includes its own |
| aclocal macros in the m4/ directory to allow rebuilding |
| the configure script to work on platforms regardless of |
| their gettext version. |
| |
| 07/15/2001 - GNU nano 1.1.0 is released. This is the first release |
| in the 1.1.x unstable series of GNU nano. It |
| incorporates all changes up to the 1.0.3 release, |
| and also includes many many new features, including |
| appending to as well as overwriting files, writing |
| marked text to a separate file, dynamic wrap length, |
| lots more compatibility with Pico, and new optional |
| features like .nanorc file support and multiple file |
| buffers! All in all, plenty of new stuff that's sure |
| to introduce lots of bugs ;-) Have fun with it, but |
| be careful, unstable means unstable. |
| |
| 04/06/2001 - GNU nano 1.0.1 is out there. The only new feature is a |
| configure option for those who want to disable all |
| word wrapping from nano, --disable-wrapping. Bug fixes |
| this release include some bugs with autoconf and i18n, |
| and several fixes in the file browser including a |
| segfault on Solaris, symlinks to directories now work |
| properly, and nano now sorts files case insensitively |
| like pilot. Have fun with it. |
| |
| 03/22/2001 - GNU Nano 1.0 is released! The autoindent wrapping bug |
| has been fixed, as well as strange bug when using Pico |
| mode and regex search. There have also been some minor |
| spelling and documentation updates. As stated on the |
| website, there are currently no known bugs with nano, but |
| some will pop up eventually and they will be addressed in |
| subsequent releases. We hope you enjoy this first stable |
| release of nano, and as always, feedback is welcome! |
| nano@nano-editor.org. |
| |
| 02/19/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre3 brings a lot of changes! The most important |
| being that nano is now officially a GNU program. Some |
| changes have been made for GNU compatibility (like the |
| default list of shortcuts, "^G Get Help" is now Listed and |
| "^_ Goto Line" is not). The Yes/No/All keys have |
| finally been internationalized also. All in all, quite |
| a few changes, considering nano is supposed to be in a code |
| freeze. But there are the usual helping of bugfixes, a |
| nasty bug when cutting text in -k mode and some |
| compatibility issues with older ncurses libraries have also |
| been fixed. All in all, a lot to see. |
| |
| 01/31/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre2 is released. Not surprisingly, all that is |
| new is bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes. There were a few |
| cleanups in unneeded global variables and duplicate |
| functions, but most is just fixing. Specifically, there |
| is now a preliminary (read: needs testing) fix for |
| resizing the editor in any mode other than normal edit |
| mode. Other fixes include some more tab completion |
| segfaults, and an silly segfault that occurred when |
| successfully writing a file on the 2nd try (i.e. after an |
| initial write error). Slowly but surely, on toward 1.0 we |
| travel. |
| |
| 01/17/2001 - Nano 0.9.99pre1 is released. This is the first pre-1.0 |
| release of nano, and is also the first release since the |
| code freeze for nano 1.0. Don't expect (or request) any |
| new features between now and nano 1.0, only bugfixes, |
| optimizations and doc/translation updates. For fixes, a |
| nasty segfault when trying to insert one's home directory |
| (~), some checks for the NumLock key making the keypad |
| go awry, window size sanity checks, many autoconf fixes, |
| and support for the KDE konsole keypad layout. Have fun. |
| |
| 01/07/2001 - Nano 0.9.25 is the "Just one more feature I swear!" release. |
| It includes one new feature that Pico has had forever, a |
| built-in file browser. Since not everyone may want this |
| option, there is a --disable-browser option to the |
| configure script as well. Other changes include slightly |
| different keypad handling, and a bugfix for crashes when |
| tab completion in certain instances. Have fun and Happy |
| New Year! |
| |
| 12/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.24 is released. This version contains the last of |
| the security fixes for writing files, as well as for a |
| nasty segfault when nano is unable to open a file for |
| reading, among other fixes. Nano also now cowardly |
| refuses to open device files, to stop silly things like |
| trying to open /dev/zero. New features include being |
| Able to use Meta-Meta-<key> as Control-<key>, better |
| HURD support, and some new flags have been added for Pico |
| compatibility. Upgrading to this version is highly |
| recommended. |
| |
| 12/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.23 is the "race conditions bite" release. The |
| main reason for this release is the less-than-optimal |
| fix for the security issue in nano with following symbolic |
| links. Hopefully this will fix the problem permanently. |
| The --nofollow option also works again for those who |
| are real security nuts. There are also some display and |
| search fixes, and the --disable-spell function was renamed |
| to --disable-speller to be in line with nano and Pico's |
| "speller" term. |
| |
| 12/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.22 is released, with many more changes and |
| additions than imaginable. The most important change is |
| a fix for unsafe handling of symbolic links which could |
| lead to symlink attacks if nano were to exit because |
| of an error or signal. Also there are better checks when |
| saving files. |
| As for new features, username tab completion is |
| now working well, the internal spell checker code has been |
| tweaked, you can now unjustify if you don't like how the |
| justify formatted your text, and there are more |
| options for configure, including --disable-spell and |
| --disable-justify and --enable-extra (for those who like |
| surprises). All in all, a whole lot of changes in |
| a little over a week. |
| |
| 11/23/2000 - Happy Thanksgiving! Nano 0.9.21 is our "last version was |
| a big turkey" release. It fixes several bugs introduced |
| by the previous version, as well as a few long- |
| standing display bugs. All 0.9.20 users are strongly |
| encouraged to upgrade to this release. |
| |
| 11/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.20 is finally out the door. Probably the biggest |
| change is the brand new way nano displays previous search |
| and replace strings (they are now editable!) This is a |
| break from Pico's (inconsistent) interface, so if you |
| don't like the new way, "Pico" mode (-p on the command |
| line or Meta-P within nano) still works the "old" |
| way. |
| Other new features include being able to deal with |
| search strings of any length, a new internal spell feature |
| (courtesy of Mr. Rocco Corsi) and tab completion when |
| reading in or writing out files! There's also the usual |
| billion or so bug fixes. Feedback on this release is |
| welcome because so much has changed, especially with the |
| previous string display in search and replace. Email -> |
| nano@nano-editor.org <-. If you like something, don't like |
| something, or just want to order a pizza, let us know! |
| |
| 10/02/2000 - Nano 0.9.19 is the "Chris is getting married in less than |
| a week and needs a distraction" release. There are only |
| a few actual code changes, mainly portability and compiler |
| warning fixes. Nano now also supports PDCurses, which |
| enables easily-built nano executables for Windows NT |
| and 95/98 for the brave. The official nano site has |
| changed (again) as well, check out www.nano-editor.org for |
| all the latest nano schtuff. |
| |
| 09/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.18 is unleashed. It has some new keyboard |
| handling code, cygwin support out of the box, and |
| a more portable handler for the NOHELP toggle. There |
| is also a fix for a somewhat serious bug whereby trying |
| to insert a directory instead of a normal file would |
| destroy the contents of the editor. A must-see. Four |
| stars. |
| |
| 09/04/2000 - Nano 0.9.17, the Labor Day release, is released after a |
| quiet spell (almost an entire month since last release!) |
| New features include better (not yet perfect) binary |
| display support and toggle support for most of the program |
| flags (M-c, M-i, M-z, M-x, M-p, M-w, M-m, M-k and M-e for |
| -c, -i, -x, -p, -w, -k, and -R). |
| |
| 08/09/2000 - Nano 0.9.16, after some struggling, is released. This release |
| should fix a few of the holes that 0.9.15 dug. The |
| "cutting text on the first line" bug is fixed, as is the |
| "cutting text on the last line" bug. Nice symmetry there |
| huh? Also the --tabsize argument should now work as well |
| as by using -T. |
| |
| 08/03/2000 - Nano 0.9.15 is the "I can't think of a release description" |
| release. There are the usual gala of display bugfixes, |
| a fix for the the nasty bug in -k mode that could create a |
| loop in the file being edited, and some other code |
| cleanup. Also, the -T option should now work regardless |
| of the curses library used. Yay. |
| |
| 07/27/2000 - Nano 0.9.14 is officially the "13 is so unlucky it should |
| be skipped as a version number" release. One typo |
| caused unending problems (calling nano with either -t or |
| -k caused both flags to be used). The -k code is also now |
| closer in functionality to Pico's -k mode; please |
| note that this code is not finished yet. Working on this |
| code has made me realize that there is not enough |
| abstraction in the code, and I will be working on that |
| for the next release. Until then, have fun with this |
| version. |
| |
| 07/23/2000 - Nano 0.9.13 has a few new bits and bobs, most notably the |
| -k option from Pico (cut to end of line). The majority |
| of changes in this release are bugfixes, however, including |
| the usual display fixes and fixes for writing to symbolic |
| links and un-writable files. Barring any other major |
| changes, this should be the feature set for nano 1.0, |
| whenever it might be released =-) |
| |
| 07/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.12 (The "lucky day" release) is bursting with new |
| features, bug fixes, and yummy fruit flavor. For |
| changes, the alternate replace keystroke ^W^T is now |
| ^W^R to be compatible with later versions of Pico. |
| ^W^T is now goto line, again for Pico compatibility. |
| As for new features, the wonderful/hated magic line |
| code has returned with a vengeance! Also, regular |
| expression searches and replaces have been incorporated |
| via the -R flag. And, of course, there are the usual |
| helping of display and other bug fixes to top it all |
| off. |
| |
| 06/20/2000 - Nano 0.9.11 presents drastic rewrites of the most buggy |
| routines in the program, specifically the wrapping code |
| and almost all of the display routines. There are many |
| improvements and bugfixes to the display subsystem in |
| general, but there may be bugs lurking yet. Also, after |
| many MANY requests, there is now an option to set the |
| displayed tab width (-T, --tabsize). Note that |
| this function just changes the way tabs LOOK in the |
| editor, the tabs you input are still real tabs of normal |
| width (usually 8 characters); nano just makes them look |
| smaller or bigger while in the editor. New in the |
| translation department is an Indonesian translation (id). |
| |
| 06/06/2000 - Nano 0.9.10 is primarily a bugfix for the loss of SIGINT when |
| using "run and terminate" flags (for example, --help). |
| There are also some minor documentation updates. This |
| version of nano is the most stable in quite some time, and |
| is likely to be the most stable for awhile. Users are |
| encouraged to upgrade to this version. |
| |
| 05/31/2000 - Nano 0.9.9 introduces much better working i18n support, |
| more portability, and a ton of bugfixes. While |
| nano is not likely anywhere near 1.0 in terms of |
| code quality, it gets a quantum leap closer with this |
| release. |
| |
| 05/18/2000 - Nano 0.9.8 (the 'what broke now?' release) should fix |
| the resize crash people have been experiencing. It also |
| offers a new input method that should allow nano to do |
| things the right way (like ^S, ^Q, custom suspend keys) |
| and hopefully won't break with non-US keyboards. There |
| are also the obligatory display fixes and speedups. Have |
| fun with it. |
| |
| 05/14/2000 - Nano 0.9.7 (the Mother's Day release) continues in the long |
| line of display fixes, and also fixes the broken symlink |
| behavior (i.e. symlinks weren't being followed by |
| default). Hopefully all major bugs can be worked out soon |
| and we can have a 1.0 release before the end of the year, |
| but who knows. |
| |
| 05/08/2000 - Nano 0.9.6 cleans up a lot of the display bugs that 0.9.5 |
| uncovered. There are improvements (and some remaining |
| segfaults) in the wrapping code, and even more |
| display optimizations. I would still say 0.9.4 or 0.9.2 |
| are the most stable versions of nano to date, but this one |
| may not be too bad =-) |
| |
| 05/01/2000 - Nano 0.9.5 attempts to speed up the display of text |
| to be at least somewhat reasonable. Much |
| code profiling has been done to reduce the |
| ridiculous number of redundant display updates. This |
| will probably expose a lot of bugs that can then be |
| fixed, so this release is probably not for the faint |
| of heart. For anyone curious, I would call nano 0.9.2 |
| the most stable version recently, so use that if you're |
| not particularly concerned with being on the bleeding |
| edge. |
| |
| 04/25/2000 - Nano 0.9.4 fixes some problems in 0.9.3 with the last |
| line code and related segfaults. It also now has |
| much better handling for 8-bit characters. The |
| --enable-tiny code also produces a smaller executable. |
| |
| 04/19/2000 - Nano 0.9.3 is officially the "Micro$oft" release. It |
| underscores the recent problem of bugfixes introducing |
| more bugs than they fix. The most important change |
| to this version of nano is the removal of the "magic |
| line". You will no longer see a blank line at the end of |
| the file. If you want a new line at the end of your file, |
| you'll have to hit enter to get one. |
| |
| NOTE: THIS BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH PICO. Unfortunately, |
| this feature has been causing many many problems with nano |
| so it is being removed for the time being, and perhaps |
| indefinitely. |
| |
| Other new stuff includes an --enable-tiny option to make |
| nano ultra small (disabling i18n, detailed help and the |
| marker and mouse code), and --with-slang to use the |
| slang libraries instead of ncurses. |
| |
| 04/15/2000 - Nano 0.9.2 just fixes the serious segfault problem if |
| nano is invoked any way other than using the absolute |
| path. The bug was in the new code for checking whether |
| nano is invoked as 'pico'. |
| |
| 04/14/2000 - 0.9.1 has some more Pico compatibility built-in. The |
| option to switch to/from Search and Search/Replace |
| (^T) is now available, and nano now displays the |
| more Pico-like shortcut list when invoked as 'pico' |
| (i.e. if 'pico' is a symlink to nano). There is an |
| important change to the handling of symbolic links |
| as well. Now, nano does the "correct" thing and |
| automatically writes to the object of the symlink, |
| rather than replace the symlink with the updated file. |
| This behavior is still available with the --nofollow |
| or -l flags. |
| Other new things include a fix for the infamous |
| "recursive replace" bug, and more bugfixes in the wrapping |
| code. |
| |
| 04/07/2000 - Nano 0.9.0 has some updates, new language support and |
| a much better refresh setup (It's still not great, but...) |
| There should also be more stability editing long lines, |
| as there was a stupid mistake in the update_line |
| call. Silly me =) |
| |
| 03/22/2000 - Nano 0.8.9 is basically just a bugfix release of 0.8.8 |
| to reflect the current stagnant status of the project. |
| Most things work, the rest doesn't doesn't work because |
| (a) I can't fix it or I would have already done so, and |
| (b) the amount of patches I'm receiving right now is quite |
| negligible. Fortunately, this release marks the first |
| release since I have acquired ownership of the nano pages |
| on SourceForge. Here's hoping SF will get us some more |
| visibility, translators and patches. |
| |
| 03/12/2000 - After a hiatus, I have finally moved (not unpacked though) |
| to my new home into Albany. Thus I should now have more |
| time to work on nano. Nano 0.8.8, the "dear god what |
| broke this time?" release, incorporates patches for both |
| i18n and many bugfixes. It is VERY likely something broke |
| this version, and it's likely I didn't even apply the i18n |
| stuff properly, so *it* may not even work. |
| |
| I would like to announce that I'm going to need |
| translations soonish, so if you are fluent in other |
| languages than English (or even better, if your native |
| language is not English) and you would like to submit a |
| translation file to me, please feel free to do so. If you |
| do, I will list your name and email in the AUTHORS file as |
| the maintainer of the .po file, and from then on it is |
| yours to take care of and keep up to date. |
| |
| 03/01/2000 - Well, to continue my trend of going back on my previous |
| release's comments, nano 0.8.7 is released. The crashing |
| behavior was still occurring, and this most recent fix also |
| fixes some other wrapping problems, so here you go. |
| There may be another release soon, there may not be, is |
| that vague enough? =) |
| |
| 02/25/2000 - More minor bugfixes in 0.8.6, the bizarre behavior at the end |
| of a page has ceased, thankfully. I'm also moving next |
| weekend, so don't be shocked if you don't see a new |
| version of nano next week =-) |
| |
| 02/11/2000 - Okay, here we go again. Aside from a few minor fixes and |
| some under-the-hood changes, you won't notice much |
| different in this version of nano. I haven't gotten much |
| feedback on the help feature, is it simply amazing or does |
| no one care? Write and let me know! =) |
| |
| 02/08/2000 - Nano 0.8.3 marks the first time in a long time that there has |
| been more than three days since the last release. New |
| features include an initial help mode (YAY!), hopefully |
| much more support for i18n out of the box, and a flag |
| for more Pico compatibility in the shortcut lists |
| displayed. This release also marks the new nano |
| distribution site, http://www.asty.org/nano and email |
| address nano@asty.org for bugs, etc. |
| |
| 02/02/2000 - Okay, I hate to go back on what I said in the last release, |
| but I may be changing jobs very soon. I will release |
| version 0.8.2 as is (no i18n, no help menu (yet). I |
| expect things to settle down by the end of next week, and |
| then I can try to start on the i18n support and help menu; |
| look for these new features in version 0.8.5 to 0.9.0. |
| |
| 01/28/2000 - Nano 0.8.1 marks our first official step toward |
| internationalization (i18n) and the help system (^G). I |
| will be merging in Jordi's patches for initial i18n in the |
| next version, and will implement the help system with |
| i18n built into it shortly after that. Please don't |
| hesitate to send bug reports, as long as you're sure the |
| fault lies with nano =-). |
| |
| 01/25/2000 - Nano 0.8.0 is officially the 'let's try and be at least a |
| little portable, mmmmkay?' release. There are many |
| portability checks and fixes; many thanks to Andy Kahn for |
| his patches. I removed the broken do_spell behavior with |
| the 'spell' program; for now, we only try to call 'ispell' |
| until I write a better method to handle the output of the |
| normal 'spell' command. |
| |
| 01/24/2000 - Nano 0.7.9 features many new features. Among them are a |
| new autoindent feature (-i, --autoindent), tempfile |
| flag like Pico's -t flag (-t, --tempfile), and preliminary |
| spelling program support. The spelling function tries |
| to run 'spell' and then 'ispell' in that order, but you |
| can specify another spelling program with -s or --speller. |
| |
| 01/17/00 - Nano 0.7.7 is officially the 'way too much stuff changed this |
| release' release. It's the busy time at work for me, so |
| please don't get offended if your patch doesn't get |
| included in the next immediate version of nano. I'm sure |
| all the changes in this release will cause a few bugs, so |
| 0.7.8 will primarily be about fixing those bugs. |
| |
| Things added this release include resizability (kinda), |
| new -x and -c flags (see nano -h for help), long command |
| line flag support, and the usual array of bugfixes. |
| |
| 01/15/00 - Nano 0.7.6 is officially the 'lightning' release. It now loads |
| large files much faster than previous versions, and is |
| even much faster than Pico or vi in some rather |
| rudimentary tests. Many thanks to Adam Rogoyski for the |
| read_byte patch! |
| |
| 01/09/00 - As of this version (0.7.4), TIP has officially been renamed |
| to nano. The new homepage is at |
| http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/astyanax/nano. Please |
| update your bookmarks, tell your friends, and all that |
| jazz. |
| |
| $Id$ |